M-RCBG Senior Fellow-Led Study Group: Andrew Collier
Tuesday, April 15 4:15-5:30pm M-RCBG Conference Room: B-102
Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0 have or may impose a variety of tariffs. What is the likely political impact of the economic effects? How can local governments continue to drive economic growth under a slowing export environment? Is there a possibility of political pressure on Xi Jinping and the Politburo?
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Andrew Kemp Collier is the former President of the Bank of China International USA, where he helped to launch BOCI’s U.S. office. BOCI was one of the first investment banks established in China and remains one of the largest global Chinese firms. Previously, he was an equity analyst with Bear Stearns and CLSA in Hong Kong, covering the Asian airline sector and media companies. Earlier in his career, he was a journalist in New York, Chicago, London and Beijing, for Bloomberg, the South China Morning Post and other publications. He has a Master’s Degree in International Relations and Chinese Studies from Yale University and studied Chinese at Peking University. He also is a Senior Fellow at the Mansfield Foundation in Washington. He currently conducts macroeconomic research on China’s economy for institutional investors that is distributed through Global Source Partners in New York. Mr. Collier has published three books on China: “Shadow Banking and the Rise of Capitalism in China” (2017); “China Buys the World: Analyzing China’s Overseas Investments” (2018); and “China’s Technology War: Why Beijing Took Down Its Tech Giants” (2022). After twelve years in Hong Kong, Mr. Collier recently relocated to Denver. In his spare time, Mr. Collier is an accomplished jazz drummer. As an M-RCBG Senior Fellow Mr. Collier will be working on a book on the historical and institutional factors that led to the collapse of China’s property market, and the impact this will have both on China’s domestic political economy and the global order. His faculty sponsor is Meg Rithmire, the F. Warren McFarlan associate professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. Email: acollier@hks.harvard.edu